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Nanda Devi

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Nanda Devi (nŭn`də dā`vē), peak, 25,645 ft (7,817 m) high, Uttaranchal state, N India, in the Himalayas. Except for some peaks in Kashmir, it is the highest point in India. Hindus believe that the goddess Nanda, wife of Shiva, lives there. Nanda Kot, at an elevation of 22,538 ft (6,870 m), is said to be Nanda's "couch." The peak was scaled in 1936 by an Anglo-American expedition.
Nanda Devi
a mountain in N India, in Uttaranchal in the Himalayas. Height: 7817 m (25 645 ft.)


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And their latest ' platform' was Uttarakhand's Nanda Devi -- the second highest peak in India.
The Wallasey-born climber Bill Tilman and his colleague, Noel Odell, stood on the summit on Nanda Devi in 1936, then the highest mountain ever to have been climbed.
With one half enclosed by the riveting line-up of Himalayan peaks such as Nanda Devi, Trishul, Kedar and Panchchuli, and the other by hills of conifer and rhododendron, Ranikhet seems so blissfully created by God and then the British, who sparingly filled it with cottages and churches.
 
 
 
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